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WATER ELEVATOR. No. 291,759. Patented Jain. 8, 1884.y

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JAMES F. MCCALMONT, OF VAYNE, NEBRASKA.

WATER-ELEVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 291,759, dated January8,1884.

Application led January 10, 1883. (Xo model.)

1b @ZZ whom t may conce-rn:

Be it known that I, J Anus F. MoCALMoNT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Vayne, in the county of lVayne and State of Nebraska, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater-Elevators; and Ido declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description ofthe invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and figur es of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention pertains toimprovements in well-bucket-operatingmechanism, and it consists in the combina-tion and arrangement of parts,substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures l and 2 represent a front view,partly in section, anda side view, respectively, of my improvement withthe bucket just emerging from the well, or partly above the curb. Fig. 3is a sectional elevation, and Figs. 4, 5, and 6 are detailed viewsthereof with the bucket and its tilting mechanism in differentpositions.

In carrying out my invention I employ upright side pieces, A A, arrangedat opposite sides of the well-curb, and preferably duplicated to enablethe duplicating of the tilting mechanism, in order that the bucket maybe operated from either side.

B is the bucket, having two opposite projections or studs, B', at itssides, and suspended by a rope, a, or other suitable medium passedthrough an eye or over a pulley depending from the upper cross-piece ortop of the side pieces, and from whence it may be passed to al windlassor winding-drum.

C C are two curved guides secured to the under side of the well-curb,one being adapted to extend in a curvature at one side oi' the plane ofthe movement of the bucket and the other to extend in a curvature at theother side of the plane of its movement, and arranged diagonallyopposite to the other guide, the purpose of which is to bring the bailof the bucket in alignment with the windlass by the studs B strikingsaid guides and being brought into position to enter the slots orgrooves in the uprights A.

D D are the tilting or cam levers or devices, pivoted one in each of theopposite side pieces or uprights, A, and adapted to have movement withinrecesses b therein. Also, made in these side pieces or uprights areadditional recesses or slots, c c, of an approximate inverted-V shape,and arranged in a plane in front of the levers or tilting device D. Itwill be noticed that as the illed bucket passes up to near the tiltingor emptying point its studs B will pass in close proximity with thetilting-levers, as seen in Fig. 4, and as the bucket continues itspassage the said studs will strike the horns of the levers in the planeof their movement, and thus tilt the levers and throw their lower endsoutward against the adjacent uprights A, as seen in Fig. 5, in whichposition they will be held until the studs of the bucket have passeddownward over the upper or cam ends of the levers and into the siderecess, b. To permit this latter movement of the studs of the bucket,the hoisting-rope is slackened, the gravity of the bucket which has thusbeen slightly tilted causing its studs to move down the inclinedsurfaces or faces of the cam-levers. Vhen the studs of the bucket haveescaped from the levers, permitting the latter Jtoassume their originalposition, the studs will pass into the beaks or one of the arms of theinverted-V-shaped recesses c, as seen in Fig. 6, when the tilting of thebucket will be completed by continuing to unwind the hoisting-rope, andthus be emptied. By slightly pulling upon the hoistingrope, the bucketwill be sufficiently elevated to lift its studs out of said portions ofthe recesses c and against the under edges of the pawls D, after which,upon continuing to slacken the hoisting-rope, the bucket will descend,its studs passing down the longer arms of the recesses c. and thencedown inclines of the recesses b, whence they will escape from the leversand the uprights, allowing the bucket to continue its descent-to andinto the well and be again filled.

I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent l. In a well-bucketoperating or tilting mech- IOO anisln, the combination, with the buckethevcam-levers and uprights having recesses, sub- 1o ing studs orprojections zit its sides, of the cumstantially as and for the purposeset forth. levers set in recesses in suitable supports, and In testimonywhereof I ztfix my signature in zrdapted to guide the bucket to one sideof its I presence of two witnesses.

5 line of elevation when the hoisting-rope 1s JAMES F. MCCALMONT.

slackened.

2. In a Well-bucket-tilting device, the coin- Witnesses: bination, withthe bucket having opposite FRANK FULLER,

studs or projections at its sides, of the tilting I JOHN F. SLINGER.

